The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
Maria Mitchell

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
Francois Guizot

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
Carson McCullers

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.
Blair Underwood

Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.
Cillian Murphy

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Dennis Potter

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
Barack Obama

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Anatole Broyard

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.
Steve Lacy

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Jessica Lange

Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
Jim Walton

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.
Myriam Miedzian

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac Newton

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
John L. Lewis

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.
Kim Il Sung

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
Wayne Coyne